Pearl Jam have finally released the uncensored music video for their 1991 single ‘Jeremy’, almost 30 years after the single was first released.
The official, censored clip debuted in 1992, and would go on to win Video Of The Year at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, but the uncensored version was never made available due to censorship laws.
Now we can finally watch the ‘Jeremy’ video as it was intended, with Peal Jam putting the clip out to coincide with National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
“The increase in gun violence since the debut of ‘Jeremy’ is staggering. We have released the uncensored version of the video which was unavailable in 1992 with TV censorship laws,” said the band in a statement.
The clip itself details the story of a bullied teenager, played by Trevor Wilson, who shot himself in front of classmates. In 1992, MTV modified a shot of Wilson placing a gun in his mouth, with the edited version zooming in so the gun couldn’t be seen.
“We can prevent gun deaths whether mass shootings, deaths of despair, law enforcement, or accidental,” Pearl Jam said.
They are also selling an updated Choices shirt with all proceeds to go to organisations working to prevent gun violence. The back of the shirt previously read; “9 out of 10 kids prefer crayons to guns.” The new Choices 2020 shirt now reads “10 out of 10 kids prefer crayons to guns.”
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“The events of this past week have underscored the importance of this issue and remind us that Black Americans are ten times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide,” added the band.
Pearl Jam recently played a concert for coronavirus relief, and teamed up with Greta Thunberg for a climate-change themed video for their single ‘Retrograde’.
They also dropped Gigatron, their first studio album since 2013, earlier this year.
Check out ‘Jeremy’ (uncensored version) by Pearl Jam:
